He was one of 16 alleged Aryan Brotherhood members and associates indicted in four separate cases involving racketeering, murder and drug trafficking in 2019. After Southern Californias spate of rare storms, is Californias drought over? 0000043098 00000 n And I know best, more than anybody, what I did and didnt do. If Yandell beats the federal case, he will be returned to state prison, where he is serving a life sentence in connection with a 2001 double homicide in El Sobrante. Mueller tried several times to dissuade Yandell from making the move, warning him that he would likely be convicted and could be sentenced to death. They love to play their cowardly games and knowing by doing so they are placing lives in direct danger. xref Get Morning Report and other email newsletters. The 10-page document accuses outgoing Sheriff Scott Jones of violating Yandells constitutional rights. Petty reportedly told Yandell he was willing to do this, but wanted to make sure his cover would not be blown, as his job was his primary source of income for his family. According to prosecutors, Maynard was targeted because he had racked up debts for drugs, and ignored the gangs prior warnings about this. The suit, filed Jan. 27, alleges that a simple database check would have shown that DeLong was not to be housed with anyone whos a part of the Aryan Brotherhood, and that the California Department of Corrections failed to adequately train employees, monitor the cell, or keep violent prison gang members segregated from other incarcerated people, among other alleged failures. Ask your friends to light a candle or come back tomorrow to light another candle for Ronald. 0000009557 00000 n When the charges were filed, the incarcerated defendants were taken from their cells in prisons across California and placed in federal custody in Sacramento. /Filter [/FlateDecode ] % startxref Thanks to the wiretap, authorities intercepted the package. 0000001262 00000 n Aryan Brotherhood case: Alleged Mexican Mafia member caught with prison handcuff key as judge considers unprecedented restrictions 0000000929 00000 n Torres, an alleged Mexican Mafia member accused of heroin trafficking, successfully moved to become his own attorney, which will give him increased access to case evidence. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. 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Nine members and associates of the Aryan Brotherhood in particular, along with one member of the Mexican Mafia, have been busted with a total of 43 prison cellphones, most of which were recovered over the past three years, according to the records. endstream 0000000017 00000 n Visitation will be held from 9:30 am to 11:00 am on Thursday, March 2, 2023, at Our Redeemer's Lutheran Church in Benson, followed by the funeral service at 11:00 am. (Left): Aryan Brotherhood associates hoping to join the gang, or earn their [sham]rock allegedly sanctioned the murder of rival gang member Hugo Yogi Pinell in the B yard at Folsom prison on Aug. 12, 2015. 110w. The complaint alleges that Corbett planned several killings with Ronald Dean Yandell, aka Renegade, an Aryan Brotherhood leader who prosecutors say sits on the three-man commission that runs the. He joined the Bay Area News Group in 2014. The planned attacks and violence perpetrated by the AB against its enemies (such as DeLong) is longstanding, pervasive, and well-documented such that defendants, and each of them, knew that placing DeLong with a member of the AB would pose a substantial risk to his health and safety, attorney Eugene Chittock wrote in the civil complaint. IRS delays tax deadline for Bay Area, but California hasn't followed: What should you do? Plaintiff is facing a potential death penalty case and is not allowed contact visits with his legal team.. 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In 2019, prosecutors charged that Mazza was ordered to murder Trippe by Ronald Dean Yandell, an alleged Aryan Brotherhood commissioner who is the lead defendant in the case. Prosecutors say this was, meant to send a message to other inmates that Pequeens murder was a hit carried out by the Aryan Brotherhood.. 0000032909 00000 n Quesenberry was an alleged FAIM member, and had several felony convictions, including for drug possession and robbery, but was still allowed to take that role. Pinell was in the Black Guerilla Family, one of the states most dominant African-American prison gangs, and was one of the so-called San Quentin Six, an infamous group said to be behind a 1971 riot and escape attempt at San Quentin, which left six dead. endobj This story has been shared 348,615 times. trailer Vote in our annual food bracket challenge. Yandell has argued that the federal charges against him are retaliation for his involvement in the hunger strike. An alleged leader of the Aryan Brotherhood neo-Nazi prison gang is suing California officials after his requests for vegetarian meals behind bars were ignored, according to reports Wednesday. Federal prosecutors charged them in 2019 with murder, drug smuggling in state prison, and various gang offenses. Prosecutors also noted that Yandell gave guards a list of demands on his first day at the jail, including: a microwave, nine hours of daily recreation room time, hot water, bedsheets and pillows, three hot meals a day, paid job assignments, self-help classes and an ice machine. Ronald had one sister: Wilma J Yendell. Prison officials, citing Yandells membership in the Aryan Brotherhood, had kept him locked away in a modern-day dungeon; he had spent 15 years in solitary confinement at Californias most notorious and secure prison, Pelican Bay. Torres, Yandell, and two-dozen suspected Aryan Brotherhood members and associates were indicted in July. . Reach him at 925-779-7174. Claire recommended tossing Yandells claims that the sheriff was harassing him by constantly transferring him and other co-defendants to different cells in the Sacramento Jail, where Yandell and several other alleged Aryan Brotherhood members await trial on racketeering charges. Nate Gartrell covers crime, politics, and corruption in Contra Costa County. He was born in Waldron, Ark. Mendezs order upholds recommendations by a federal magistrate, which Yandell objected to. 0000033145 00000 n Reply. Members who do not fulfill their obligations to the AB are subject to murder.. We review de novo, FILED MAY 30 2014 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK The idea, according to the informant, was to kill two birds with one stone; get rid of Maynard, while ensuring Stockton would be removed from that prison housing unit. Dear Abby: Why do they imply my husband is a freak? The 10-page document accuses. All Access Digital offer for just 99 cents! AB members are required, when ordered, to kill without hesitation, the criminal complaint says. There is plenty of leeway given for a pro per defendants legal assistant. 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It has an alliance with the Mexican Mafia, and is a rival of various African-American gangs, though all but one of the murder conspiracies alleged in the case are the result of internal politics. You can add to Ronald's profile: Nickname: 14 Joey + Number of children: 11 2 + Personality: 24 Beautiful . FILE In this Aug. 17, 2011, file photo, a correctional officer works at one of the housing units at Pelican Bay State Prison near Crescent City, Calif. Federal prosecutors say leaders of a notorious white supremacist gang have been charged with directing killings and drug smuggling from within Californias most secure prisons. We've received your submission. I am white power: Aryan Brotherhood fugitive arrested in Costa Rica, hangs himself inside jail cell The group is due back in court on Oct. 23 in front of Mueller, who said she expects to hear a number of defense motions on that date. But two months later, Stockton allegedly murdered another inmate, Douglas Maynard, on Corbetts orders. Though the case was filed nearly two years ago, the trial is likely years away. The defendants have pleaded not guilty, with two notable exceptions: Nolan and Hall have not yet been caught, and authorities do not know where they are. Ronald Dean Yandell, 58, filed the handwritten suit last week from his cell at the Sacramento County Main Jail, where he alleges he is being kept 23 hours a day. << Beaver, Yandell allegedly said, earned his rock, meaning he earned a shamrock tattoo signifying Aryan Brotherhood membership, by committing the deed. (Left): Aryan Brotherhood associates hoping to join the gang, or earn their [sham]rock allegedly sanctioned the murder of rival gang member Hugo Yogi Pinell in the B yard at Folsom prison on Aug. 12, 2015. In bid for freedom, Aryan Brotherhood member has an unlikely ally: The man he allegedly plotted to murder Yandell,who is serving a life sentence in connection with a 2001 double homicide, requested the special vegetarian grub on March 8, 2020, and March 20, 2020, but never received it, according to the federal lawsuit filed March 15. Tattoos displaying Aryan Brotherhood symbols. 19 0 obj SAN ANTONIO - Twenty five men and women are in custody after authorities busted a drug distribution operation in the San Antonio area Thursday, according to officials. Prison officials, who were wise to the scheme at this point, placed an audio-free camera in the meeting room and caught what appeared to be Demar passing something to Sylvester, who was Yandells cellmate at the time. Ronald Yandell, 56, is the alleged ringleader of a crime spree involving the Aryan Brotherhood gang. SACRAMENTO In an unexpected twist, a leader of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang has declared that hes decided to give up his experienced court-appointed attorney and instead fight a multiple-murder death penalty case by himself. It is a racketeering conspiracy case, which alleges that Yandell plotted numerous killings from his prison cell in Sacramento, using contraband cellphones to communicate with other gang members, not that he personally committed any of the murders. Prosecutors conceded the request was unprecedented, and defense attorneys called it a clear-cut violation of an individuals right to face criminal charges in person. The prison is under investigation by the FBI for alleged staff corruption, the Sacramento Bee reported last April. Prosecutors havent taken the death penalty off the table in Yandells case, according to Newsweek. www.youtube.com/channel/UCil6ZW8rMOKUfXqeJ9y_EZw Posts Videos Tagged Who makes the best hot chicken sandwich in Denver? endobj SACRAMENTO A federal judge has allowed a lawsuit filed by an alleged leader of the Aryan Brotherhood to proceed on grounds that the jail is improperly withholding a religious vegetarian diet, court records show. /L 66250 Corbett suffers from gout and complications from multiple motorcycle-related injuries, his attorneys said in motions and in open court. After Stockton allegedly stabbed Maynard to death on a High Desert prison yard, a confidential informant described only as an ex-member of the Sacramaniacs prison gang told federal prosecutors that Corbett hired Stockton for the hits because he did not like him. Interment will be in the Our Redeemer's Lutheran . And I truly believe, your honor, that Im going to do a good job.. 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McGregor Scott, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California, answers questions concerning the charges against leaders of the white supremacist prison gang, the Aryan Brotherhood, during a news conference in Sacramento, Thursday, June 6, 2019. A documentary we started creating in 2017 to bring racial unity across the prisons in Ca & ripple outward from there; the same way these men in the Doc came together in pelican bay hunger strike's (2011-2013) to get their freedom from the SHU after a decade or two. Diaz was moved into protective custody before the killing could take place, authorities said. In the lawsuit, Yandell says he has been locked in a cell for 23 hours a day after being transferred to Sacramento County Main Jail in July 2019. (Yandell) is a very dangerous dude. /H [ 929 333 ] 0000000828 00000 n They argued that such allegations were often unsupported and based upon anonymous informants, and amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. /Parent 15 0 R Crime and Public Safety | Corbett and Yandell also discussed killing an Aryan Brotherhood associate named K-Bob, but K-Bob later cleared the air with the gangs leadership and the hit was called off, prosecutors say. The charging records allege that in August 2016, Corbett and a leader in the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang, Ronald Dean Yandell, 57, used contraband prison cell phones to communicate. Ron . But in 2015, after statewide hunger strikes and law Ronald was born June 25, 1936. Crime and Public Safety | /Length 2208 By becoming his own attorney, Yandell will be granted access to certain pieces of prosecution evidence, including, potentially, names of witnesses; be assigned a legal assistant outside jail; and be given means to communicate with his legal assistant without the nuisance of knowing authorities are listening in. Prosecutors allege Aryan Brotherhood member Billy Sylvester murdered Ronald Richardson in the small, concrete yard inside B-3 Security Housing Unit at Folsom prison, where the units inmates exercise, to gain entrance into the Brotherhood on Oct. 7, 2011. 0000038349 00000 n xZn7? .*0r }HHX0KzUTzkrw?/2y*7_^3Nw|74>,C>RxbjW\&=9nyj5~lm|~{;`)(_>hN!=L>f8}sm 5(2a1).8v77-sfLwJY{RFrX~/e/seud1;bT0f*^36:RQMrcE7V G`{pUSoQvPurA hXDlFF7 lM6h8:#Tb5MnfStY[k5F3w-N?nN_B`hm3FlyW ^fz7!\`d~(urKx4)T5dJ7o(-pEm8(lkzEAgEciX NeFE`%w}/wS}axZh\Y{s*8!D]#G^!*}!psWm.U{R 1YS+w&G9)J:/g{$7z,nPaO:;cm92!R/k(Y pb B4BYD[Z^:S! Crime and Public Safety | Plant Memorial Trees Opens send flowers url in a . He was buried in 1999, at burial place. Nate Gartrell covers crime and corruption in Contra Costa County. Stockton became eligible for a parole hearing in 2018. Aryan Brotherhood members and associates are accused of running a criminal enterprise using contraband cellphones, encrypted chats, text messages, multimedia messages and email.The charges detail five slayings and accuse an attorney of helping smuggle drugs and cellphones to aid the white supremacist gang. Ronald's Obituary. The charges against the group are largely built on a multi-week wiretap of Yandells contraband cellphone, in which he allegedly discussed previous murders that were committed on behalf of the Aryan Brotherhood, coordinated drug deals and counseled, mentored, cajoled, berated and plotted to kill other members of the gang, according to prosecutors. 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